First Look: Brazil

[Nikolai]

Courtesy of WePlayCiv

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[Buster's Uncle]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SafL6Dbu1Lk" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SafL6Dbu1Lk</a>

[Nikolai]

Beat you.

[Buster's Uncle]

-So you did, by a minute and change.

If only I was awake and hadn't stopped to post an avatar first.    I'll be a good sport and merge to let you have the top.

[Nikolai]

I feel so special.

[Buster's Uncle]

You are, sir; a special flower.

(As I truly do call you behind your back "a good kid.")

[Buster's Uncle]

-Incidentally, you beat me to Facebook, too, and good on ya for that. 

Now, I realize the merge broke the link and I have to redo the AC2 page post...

-Also incidentally, I've been in the habit of 'like'ing WPC link posts; if you do that back, we both get a little visibility boost and SEO, which is the name of a lot of what cooperating accomplishes, going both ways...

[Nikolai]

Sure, I can do that.

[Buster's Uncle]

Wow.  You don't do things halfway.  I like that.

('Like' as the WPC page next time, though. )

[Nikolai]

How do I do that?

[Nikolai]

Think I figured it out. I have to manually choose WPC each time I like something it seems.

[Buster's Uncle]

'Fraid so.  A year ago, you could choose to browse and post on Facebook as a page you have admin access to, but one morning, I found I suddenly had to do it one post at a time and didn't have access to a news timeline for the page at all.  I hate those arbitrary changes in Facebook, like the page layout last week...

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And hey!  I have an on-topic remark!  Pedro was an interesting figure - the politics of his position in Brazil and in his family was really complicated, and he navigated it very successfully in the end.  I dunno about Brazil -Arnelos has that right, I expect- but I'm glad to see Pedro get the attention...

-I've never had lunch with him, but only older people will get that joke...

[Buster's Uncle]

Comments?  Mars needs conversation.

[Nikolai]

I am not surprised Brazil is in, it's been in Civ before after all.

[Buster's Uncle]

I guess one could complain that, you know, it's not a very old country - but one could equally argue that it's not just a business decision; Brazilians want to play Brazil sometimes just like USicans want to play the Roosevelt civ, and why not?

Some of that same argument I made last week about women leaders and the little girls remembering applies here, too...